The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Volumen4Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton F. Finley & Company, 1894 |
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... Battle - Mollwitz 15 FREDERIC THE GREAT , PART II . 27 . • The Four Battles of 1757 . Frederic's Last Battle - Torgau . THE GREAT ELECTOR ( FREDERIC WILLIAM ) The Emergence of Brandenburg . The Battle of Fehrbellin 3333 37 43 59 62 ...
... Battle - Mollwitz 15 FREDERIC THE GREAT , PART II . 27 . • The Four Battles of 1757 . Frederic's Last Battle - Torgau . THE GREAT ELECTOR ( FREDERIC WILLIAM ) The Emergence of Brandenburg . The Battle of Fehrbellin 3333 37 43 59 62 ...
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... Battle of Navaretta · • PAGE • 152 • 155 • 163 · · 164 • 168 • • 178 · 180 · 185 • 189 194 199 · • · 203 205 208 · 210 · • 213 220 · · 226 235 237 · 242 · 248 • 252 254 · 264 267 The Death of Queen Blanche HENRY OF TRASTAMARE The Royal ...
... Battle of Navaretta · • PAGE • 152 • 155 • 163 · · 164 • 168 • • 178 · 180 · 185 • 189 194 199 · • · 203 205 208 · 210 · • 213 220 · · 226 235 237 · 242 · 248 • 252 254 · 264 267 The Death of Queen Blanche HENRY OF TRASTAMARE The Royal ...
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... his army at Mollwitz near Brieg . Here a severe battle was fought on the 27th of April , 1741. The Prussian army was drawn out between Hermsdorf and Pam- pitz . After a vigorous cannonade on both sides , FREDERIC THE GREAT . II.
... his army at Mollwitz near Brieg . Here a severe battle was fought on the 27th of April , 1741. The Prussian army was drawn out between Hermsdorf and Pam- pitz . After a vigorous cannonade on both sides , FREDERIC THE GREAT . II.
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... battle lost ; and , carried along by his own flying cavalry , he fled to Oppeln . It has been said that he took refuge in a windmill , which led to the bitter remark , that the King of Prussia , at the battle of Mollwitz , " had covered ...
... battle lost ; and , carried along by his own flying cavalry , he fled to Oppeln . It has been said that he took refuge in a windmill , which led to the bitter remark , that the King of Prussia , at the battle of Mollwitz , " had covered ...
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... battle , the Prussian cavalry succeeded in turning the left wing of the Austrians , and threw them into disorder . Upon seeing this , Frederic brought up the infantry of his right wing , and completed the success of that part of the ...
... battle , the Prussian cavalry succeeded in turning the left wing of the Austrians , and threw them into disorder . Upon seeing this , Frederic brought up the infantry of his right wing , and completed the success of that part of the ...
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Página 388 - ... militia,— our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 388 - ... these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Página 349 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Página 352 - The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time, is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.
Página 337 - She entreats us to cultivate a propitious soil, where that generous plant which first sprung up and grew in England, but is now withered by the poisonous blasts of Scottish tyranny, may revive and flourish, sheltering under its salubrious and interminable shade all the unfortunate of the human race.
Página 351 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Página 333 - Colony to such declaration, and to whatever measures may be thought proper and necessary by the Congress for forming foreign alliances, and a Confederation of the Colonies, at such time and in the manner as to them shall seem best: Provided, That the power of forming Government for, and the regulations of the internal concerns of each Colony, be left to the respective Colonial Legislatures.
Página 64 - I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Página 375 - The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or effecting good, in those crises of our public affairs which seem likely to happen, would probably be inseparable from a conformity with public prejudice, in this particular.
Página 291 - With the hure, as himself calls it, or black boar's-head, fit to be "shaken" as a senatorial portent? Through whose shaggy beetle-brows, and rough-hewn, seamed, carbuncled face, there look natural ugliness, smallpox, incontinence, bankruptcy, — and burning fire of genius; like comet-fire glaring fuliginous through murkiest confusions?